We can’t blame them for all the shiny new skyscrapers downtown, all the hustle of the Magnificent Mile, the ceaseless flow of capital. What about the other Chicago? The latter, where hope is a commodity and opportunity an afterthought? I’m not just referring to these beautiful, mostly Black South and...
Decentralized Finance. It's supposed to be the future, right? We want a world in which anyone, anywhere, can use financial services without having to ask a bank for permission. That future doesn’t seem quite so sunny anymore. It does feel a little unjust given the regulatory quagmire we’re in right...
DeFi. Decentralized Finance. I mean, it’s the Wild West of finance out there right now right? With it, promises of unprecedented access and return, but overshadowed with regulatory uncertainty. The current approach? A hapless tango of regulators far behind the curve attempting to catch up, impose fines, and wading in...
We've all heard the narratives: Bitcoin is a volatile casino, a tool for criminals, a bubble waiting to burst. The media has a field day casting it like that. Picture this Bitcoin is more than the hype and FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) sensational headlines you’ve heard. Beneath the facade, however,...
The story of my hometown, Harmony Creek, and its recent brush with losing its soul. First, we were up against a huge corporate housing development—Harmony Heights. It offered enormous economic promise, but at the same time threatened to decimate what had made Harmony Creek unique. Imagine packed roads, overtaxed infrastructure,...
If we’re being real, today’s DeFi user experience is frequently an impenetrable walled garden. The institutions with the very deep pockets, those are the ones who are always getting the lionshare of the winnings. What of the solo coders, the small teams with big dreams and bigger ideas, but not...
And yet, for all the promise of DeFi, it can sometimes feel like a carnival side show. Shiny prizes (upwardly spiking APYs) entice, but the house always wins. But coupled with likely incentive structures particularly around token emissions this has set up an ultimate recipe for short-term wins and long-term...
Kabosu. Even the name sounds like a sneeze. And perhaps that indeed is what it is – a minor, inconsequential sneeze in the long arc of Ethereum’s development. Or maybe that’s just a symptom of a bigger issue. It may foreshadow rot at the very core of what once seemed...
7400%. That's the number plastered all over XYZVerse's marketing. A 7400% increase from their presale at $0.003333 to an expected $0.10. A siren song sung softly in the ears of crypto veterans and dreamers alike. Let's be brutally honest here, folks. Though in the wild west of meme coins, promises...